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[Consultation in refractory cases in mental health care: a descriptive study]
Background:
Yearly, over 1.000.000 people receive mental health care treatment in the Netherlands. Treatment usually results in improvement in quality of life. Concurrently, each professional recognizes clinically refractory cases in which improvement fails to occur with severe ongoing burden for the client. In the Netherlands, for these clinically refractory cases the Centre of Consultation and Expertise (CCE) is available. The CCE is an independent nation-wide organisation offering free consultations to care providers. Therefore, CCE-consultations provide a unique insight in and overview of refractory cases.
Aim:
Providing overview of and insight into backgrounds and themes that play a role in (the reduction of) refractory cases.
Method:
Descriptive study of quantitative and qualitative data from 472 consultations in mental health care.
Results:
83% of cases could be explained with 4 exemplary vignettes of refractoriness: self-harm, aggression, self-neglect and socially unacceptable behaviour.
Conclusion:
Refractory cases result from an interaction pattern that unintentionally maintains or aggravates the situation. This study offers an overview of approaches that proved to be helpful in providing new perspective for clients and professionals in many therapy refractory cases in Dutch mental health care.
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